Florian is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Canary, a leading early-stage investment firm in Brazil and Latin America. Canary has over $300M in AUM and has invested in over 100 companies since its inception in 2017 and is continuously ranked as a top investor in the region. Previously, Florian founded Loft, which is moving Brazilian homebuying into the ecommerce age, bringing transparency, liquidity and credit to millions of Brazilians, delivering home ownership and happiness on the back of a full stack digital solution. Loft is backed by leading global proptech and fintech investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, QED, D1, DST, Thrive, Altimeter, Vulcan Capital, Silver Lake, among others and has raised more than $1B in equity and debt capital to date. Before that, Florian co-founded Printi, Latam's leading online printing marketplace, having started the company in 2012, raising over $50M in equity and ultimately selling the business to US-based global online printing leader Vistaprint (Nasdaq:CMPR).Florian is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies. Since 2014 he is an Endeavor Entrepreneur, an organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He currently resides in São Paulo and is married to Geraldine and together they have two kids and a small dog called Kingsley.
